sumpitan

The sumpitan is a piece of hard wood, from six to eight feet in length and in circumference slightly larger than the handle of a broom.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

The sumpitan is a kind of blow-gun, like the "bean-blower" formerly used by American boys, which was a tin pipe, or the "pea-shooter," an English plaything.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

On leaving the house we noticed several blow-pipes, a hollow tube eight feet long called by the Poonans "sumpitan," the chief weapon of this tribe, and in the manufacture of which they greatly excel.

On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894

Their weapon is the sumpitan, a blow-gun, from which poisoned arrows are expelled.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

On the third day a little Chink doctor visited me with the steward, but he didn't have a word of English, and busied himself impassively examining the sumpitan-wound in my guts - which was fairly healed, and barely ached - while remaining deaf to my demands to see Solomon.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

I observed those flat, evil faces sweeping down on us behind their glittering lance-heads and kampilans, and decided they weren't open to discussion; there was nothing for it but to sit and blaze away in panic - and then a red-hot pain shot through my left ribs, and I looked down bewildered to see a sumpitan shaft in my side.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

There's a hundred mile o 'river between Skrang creek and the sea, every yard o' it hotchin 'wi' pirates, slavers, nata-hutan, * (* "Wood devils", i.e. users of the sumpitan). an 'heid-hunters by the thousand, every side-stream crawlin' wi 'war-praus an' bankongs, tae say nothin 'o' the forts!

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

"Let's see you puff your pop-gun, Johnny," cries one of the tars, and they swung a champagne cork on a string as a target, twenty yards off; one of the grinning little brutes slipped a dart into his sumpitan, clapped it to his mouth - and in a twinkling there was the cork, jerking on its string, transfixed by the foot-long needle.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

A seaman at my elbow screamed and stood up, tearing at a sumpitan dart in his arm; as I dived for the cover of the rail another stood quivering in a cable a foot from my face; Brooke leaned over, grinning, snapped it off, tossed it away, and then did an unbelievable thing.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977